Amazon’s List of The 100 Must-Read Science Fiction and Fantasy Books

This List Includes a Lifetime’s Worth of Great Fiction

Assembling the list of the most essential science fiction and fantasy books is a huge undertaking, but Amazon has tackled it and done a pretty thorough job at it. It includes a mix of old and new, and enough different types of book to please almost anybody.

Amazon Editor Adrian Liang provided this explanation for the list:

We wanted to choose books that had been life-changers to readers. The best books realign your thinking about your world, yourself and the world.

A lot of themes stay the same because they’re timeless. Generally in fantasy, the themes are coming of age, personal strengths, how to deal with power you have and making the right choices. In science fiction, it’s how you interact with society and tear it down or build it up again. Apocalyptic fiction is also seeping into the genre.